Alternative to Windows Media Player

Question

Does anybody know any alternatives to windows media player which will play dvds in high defintion?

Answer 1

There are plenty, but VLC will play almost anything you throw at it.

Answer 2

Media Player Classic Home Cinema

• x32 and x64 version
• http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/

Answer 3

I recommend KMPlayer.

The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways.

The player provides both internal and external filters with a fully controlled environment in terms of connections to other splitters, decoders, audio/video transform filters and renderers without grappling with the DirectShow merit system. Internal filters are not registered to user's system to keep it from being messed up with system filters.

The KMPlayer includes almost all the essential decoders required for media playback. Furthermore, to get beyond the limitation of internal decoders, the external ones such as commercial h.264 decoders or cyberlink/intervideo audio decoders can be specified, so that KMP works optimally by the users' own customization. Even though the KMP is based upon directshow structure, it supports Winamp, Realmedia and Quicktime by the internal logic. Thus, it is possible to specify where to try to connect firstly the media in preferences.

Answer 4

I prefer SMplayer - mainly for the MPlayer backend + it can resume playing from wherever you stopped - for any number of files.

Answer 5

GOM Media Player is decently ranked on cnet.

Answer 6

AFAIK Winamp plays HD video no problem.

Answer 7

Before I discovered VLC, I used PowerDVD. They used to have a free version, not sure about now. Check it out, it might be what you want.

Answer 8

XBMC is the best Media Center out there ! It will play in hi-def as well.

Answer 9

if I read this question correctly, we're looking for something a wee bit more sophisticated than the usual suspects (no offense, i love the freebies too):

Does anybody know any alternatives to windows media player which will play dvds in high defintion?

have a look an WinDVD 2010 Pro, amongst other features it offers

GPU-accelerated upscaling for smoother playback of your DVD-Video on high-definition display. Upscale DVD-video to fit your HD display, regardless of the platform!

WinDVD 2010 Pro is shareware, try before you buy.

or get nVidia's PureVideo codec for High-Quality Hardware Scaling that delivers a clear, clean image when upscaling low-resolution video to HDTV resolutions up to 1080i and maintains image detail without any annoying flicker, even when scaling down high-definition video.

Answer 10

Songbird Can handle all audio, can sync most devices, built on mozilla, has a built in browser (firefox) and has tons of Firefox addons. Soon supporting video.

Answer 11

MPlayer, of course. For windows, I recommend MuldeR's package :

This package contains the latest builds of MPlayer for the Windows platform as well as SMPlayer and MPUI. Thanks to the award-winning MPlayer engine, more than 192 Video- and 85 Audiocodecs are supported natively! For maximum performance the package includes optimized MPlayer binaries for various CPU types. Furthermore the Full-Package includes the Binary Codec Package to enable even more audio/video formats. Everything in one self-contained download :-)

The Light-Package is a stripped-down version of this package, that includes MPUI and the MPlayer binaries only.

I actually prefer the MPUI front end to SMPlayer for its minimalism